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Disaster Recovery (DR) Architecture on AWS, Part I: Strategies for Recovery in the Cloud

AWS Disaster Recovery

We use the following objectives: Recovery time objective (RTO) : The maximum acceptable delay between the interruption of service and restoration of service. Recovery point objective (RPO) : The maximum acceptable amount of time since the last data recovery point. Recovery objectives: RTO and RPO. Pilot light.

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Disaster Recovery (DR) Architecture on AWS, Part II: Backup and Restore with Rapid Recovery

AWS Disaster Recovery

In a previous blog post , I introduced you to four strategies for disaster recovery (DR) on AWS. By using the best practices provided in the AWS Well-Architected Reliability Pillar whitepaper to design your DR strategy, your workloads can remain available despite disaster events such as natural disasters, technical failures, or human actions.